philosophy and theatre an introduction

44 This is one of the claims of Hamilton (1982). 45 T. Mann,Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull(Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag ...

I imagine seeing horses in front of me. (Sensory) I imagine that there are horses in front of me. (Propositional) I act as if t ...

73 Nietzsche is not so much referring to the specific arguments of Plato and Socrates, which we looked at in the previous chapte ...

they act as if it’s a bear. This is not the same as visualising the bear; nor is it the same as simply supposing (entertaining t ...

4 History in the Making: Theatre and the Past Herodotus of Helicarnassus here presents his research so that human events do not ...

make-believe. Although they are clearly distinct, we can see that these two broad kinds ofmimesisare related to one another in a ...

Athenian buildings would have provided a strong reminder–if one was needed–of the cost of the war. Many modern readers have foun ...

of theatrical performance. To do so, I shall consider a case-study: Gloucester on the cliffs of Dover. In Act IV Scene VI ofKing ...

Now that we have our guiding question, the chapter proceeds as follows: first, I give some defining features of a history play. ...

Watching this scene (if suitably immersed), we do not congratulate ourselves for the complex interplay of imitation and imaginat ...

they do so in the process of depicting something that happened: the defeat of the Persians at Salamis, the murder of Caesar. Thi ...

(1986), Heath (1996) and the collection of essays in Rorty (1992). See Halliwell (2002) and Huhn (2004) for more detailed and hi ...

Finally, we must distinguish the history play from the counterfactual play. Suppose someone writes a play about the conspiracy a ...

19 Barish (1981: 11). 20 See e.g. Nehamas (1982); Belfiore (1984). 21 This is one of many conventional interpretations of Plato, ...

We’ve already explored one problem with Aristotle’s claim about theatre: namely, that it’s difficult to say just which universal ...

48 By calling this kind of imagination‘sensory’, I do not wish to obscure significant differences between actually seeing the ho ...

history book; don’t watch plays. Defenders of this last view, if they are not mad, are not suggesting that there is no connectio ...

3 Truth and Illusion Antonin Artaud’s provocative collection of essays, The Theatre and its Double, is a call to arms for those ...

It’s pretty clear that people can learn something about Rome from Julius Caesar–indeed, I doubt that anyone would really deny th ...

Content and form Artaud’s remark about‘lies and illusion’reminds us that, even at first glance, there are two completely differe ...